Deliver the Letter, the Weekdays are Better: Postal Service to Cut Saturday Service

Terrible Postal Service news! What? Haha, oh, no, no. The band is still touring this spring. Thank God. Could you imagine if anything had happened to Ben Gibbard? Don’t even joke.

No, today’s terrible Postal Service news concerns the charmingly anachronistic government agency for which the rad, emo-tronica-y band was named. “The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion, the financially struggling agency says,” per The New York Times, though “[i]t was not immediately clear how the service could eliminate Saturday mail without congressional approval.” One idea: the Postal Service could just quietly stop delivering mail on Saturdays without notifying anyone. It would take decades of passive-aggressive notes from relatives about “birthday cards delivered the day after [his] birthday” for anyone to even consider looking into what was going on.

Completely true Postal Service story: your VF.com blogger’s boyfriend recently—within the past two months—pointed to a public blue mailbox on a street corner and before depositing a bill inside asked “whether that thing still worked.”